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Congress gives NIH it’s largest funding increase in 12 years, Focuses on Personalized Medicine and Alzheimer’s

Congress’s recently passed budget increases NIH funding from $30 to $32 billion, which is the maximum allowable increase. Of this funding, $200 million is for the Precision Medicine Initiative, which funds research for personalized medicine based on genetics. $350 million is earmarked for Alzheimer’s research, $303 million is for researching drug-resistant bacteria, and $85 million is directed to the BRAIN initiative for neuronal mapping.